If you asked Rotana Tarabzouni in 2011 about the protests to end Saudi Arabia's ban on female drivers, she would have cynically called the cause hopeless. Now, two years after the first campaign, the Saudi-raised, California-based singer is optimisti...

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has revoked the sentence of 10 lashings that a woman was meant to receive for driving in the kingdom, according to a tweet from a Saudi princess's Twitter account. Princess Ameerah Al-Taweel tweeted the news Wednesday, sa...

A Saudi woman has been sentenced to 10 lashes for defying the kingdom's ban on female drivers, according to recent reports. The sentencing is the first of its kind since the social media-based Women2Drive movement launched in the country a few months...

A Saudi woman, defying the country's ban on female drivers, has been released after she was briefly arrested while driving to her daughter's office in the city of Jeddah. AFP reports that Najla Hariri was released after her husband came to the police...

Fourteen female United States senators have sent a letter to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, asking him to lift the ban that keeps women from driving within the kingdom. The letter -- dated July 26 -- comes as a major boost for an ongoing social media ...

A Saudi Arabian woman will be tried for driving during what she said was a medical emergency, according to reports released Wednesday. The kingdom, currently home to the social media-driven Women2Drive campaign, is the only country in the world that ...

Women's rights activists, in support of those fighting a ban on female drivers in Saudi Arabia, are petitioning the U.S. State Department to condemn the detention of Saudi women who were arrested and held for driving earlier this week. Support Saudi ...

Saudi Arabian women's rights activists, looking to overturn the kingdom's ban on female drivers, have added a new social layer to their movement by launching Facebook ads about their Subaru campaign. The Saudi Women for Driving released the series of...

5:15 p.m. ET: Updated with information from Benjamin Joffe-Walt of Change.org The Saudi Arabian women who were arrested for defying the kingdom's driving ban seem to have been released, according to recent reports. ABC News says the women, who were a...

Five Saudi Arabian women have been arrested for the first time since numerous women started driving on June 17, in an effort to defy the kingdom's ban on female drivers. The incidents have been reported by the Saudi media and have also been confirmed...

More Saudi Arabian women drove their cars in the streets of capital Riyadh Wednesday, continuing a campaign -- largely rooted in social media -- to push the kingdom into overturning a ban on female drivers. At the same time, one of the European Union...

1:17 p.m. ET: Updated with statement from Subaru of America The Saudi Women for Driving coalition has launched a Change.org campaign asking automobile company Subaru to pull out of Saudi Arabia until women have the right to drive. The petition is par...

A number of female U.S. House of Representatives members have expressed their support for the women who drove their cars on the streets of Saudi Arabia Friday, in an effort to defy the country's ban on female drivers. A few shows of encouragement for...

Saudi women — and the men who support them — are tweeting updates as they drive cars through Saudi Arabia on Friday as part of an initiative that defies a ban on female drivers. A large number of tweets can be viewed under the #Women2Drive hashtag. T...

Saudi Arabian women plan to start driving their cars Friday, one month after Manal al-Sherif — a key figure in a social media campaign against a ban on female drivers — was arrested when she posted a YouTube video of herself driving around the city o...

The Saudi Arabian woman who was arrested after posting an online video of herself driving has been freed from a women's prison after nine days, pledging that she will no longer participate in a campaign to lift a ban on female drivers. Manal al-Sheri...

A Saudi Arabian woman -- at the center of a social media campaign protesting a ban against female drivers -- has been re-arrested after posting a video on the Internet of herself driving. Manal al-Sherif, a 32-year-old woman who launched an Internet ...

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